Security Hardening Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Security Hardening
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Security Hardening skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.16% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £439 - -
25th Percentile £483 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £420 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -30.00% +20.00% +17.65%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Security Hardening falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,593 1,111 1,832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.58% 93.60% 90.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,040 638 991
10th Percentile £300 £300 £213
25th Percentile £401 £413 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £594 £636 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 32 98
10th Percentile £20.50 £26.03 £18.95
25th Percentile £57.00 £41.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.97% +5.48% -9.86%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.62 £67.50
90th Percentile £97.50 £85.47 £86.05
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £37.80 £36.50
% change year-on-year -20.62% +3.55% -18.89%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Hardening relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Security Hardening job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Security Hardening.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Security Hardening

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Hardening in Berkshire over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Hardening in Berkshire

Security Hardening
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Hardening within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 15 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wokingham - 3 £555 - 2
Security Hardening
South East

Security Hardening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database 11g
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database 12c
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Architect
2 1 (33.33%) DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (33.33%) SQL DBA
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) GitOps
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Data Guard
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle